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The body of
Thomas GILLESPIE, a well-known farmer of Abbs Valley, was found last Saturday morning not far
from his home by his son, Fayate. A bullet wound in the left side, from a pistol found
near the corpse, was the cause of his death. One cartridge had been fired. Whether or not
it was suicide, accident or murder, has not been decided. The Commonwealths Attorney, Mr.
SMITH, made an investigation, and gave out no opinion. The general opinion is that it was
a case of suicide, but just why he should have shot himself in the left lower side is not
clear. Some think it was an accident. Deceased was 68 years of age, brother to Luther
GILLESPIE, of Tazewell and to Mrs. C. A. MITCHELL, of Bluefield, and oldest son of the
late Floyd GILLESPIE of Gratton.
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